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Nostalgia time forgot..
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Yeah we all remember things like the Milky Bar Kid and taping the Top 40 on a Sunday night.
But what about those bits of nostalgia most people will have forgotten about?
Give us a reminder so that we all think “oh gawd, blimey, yeah I’d forgotten about that!”
For starters, who remembers Hedgehog flavoured crisps? Which, if I recall correctly, caused some controversy at the time as they didn’t actually contain any hedgehog.
What else though, Fabsters, can you pull from the distant recesses of your mind?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When all your milk and pop came in little glass bottles by a man not asda. "
Plastic covers for milk bottle tops to stop the birds pecking through the foil and getting at the top layer of cream on the milk. |
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Chewing gum machines outside shops. Literally bolted to the wall. Even if the shop was closed you could still buy gum.
Fry's Five Centres
Phone locks. Someone I went to school with had one after he ran up a massive bill playing some phone based adventure game.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Snow days!
The boilers at school couldn't cope, so used to break down and we'd get sent home!
Cue getting anything we could lay our hands on to go sledging at the local park! Anything from metal tea trays (if you were posh) to a piece of cardboard or a bin bag to speed down that hill!
It would be like a sheet of glass by midday! |
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When I could walk round Woolworths without constantly having some teenage mother running her battle buggy into my arse as I shuffle along.
Have Woolworths changed thier name as I cant seem to find them.
When the man at the garage came out and put the petrol in the tank.
When I didn't have to spend 75% of my time looking for public toilets.
Ah! those were the days  |
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By *an hjCouple
over a year ago
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Telephone boxes everywhere that took 2p and 10ps. I don't even know if they do public call boxes any more let alone my nearest one."
That's pretty modern stuff, four huge pennies, with a button A & B to push.
Proper dial too. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Anyone remember Blakeys?
Metal things you put in the soles / heels of your shoes to prolong their life from wear and tear.
Except as kids we used to put them on our shoes to create sparks when you dragged them along the road when riding your bike.
Just us? Did anyone else do that? |
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"Anyone remember Blakeys?
Metal things you put in the soles / heels of your shoes to prolong their life from wear and tear.
Except as kids we used to put them on our shoes to create sparks when you dragged them along the road when riding your bike.
Just us? Did anyone else do that? "
When I was a kid lads used to wear George Webb shoes and got metal toe caps or heels to do that. Weren't called Blakey's this side of the Irish sea afaik |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"10p mix up costing 10p
And having 10 sweets inside "
You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!
That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin! |
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"10p mix up costing 10p
And having 10 sweets inside
You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!
That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin! "
I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"10p mix up costing 10p
And having 10 sweets inside
You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!
That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin!
I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol "
Some of us are pre decimalisation. Threepenny bits and a sixpence   |
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"10p mix up costing 10p
And having 10 sweets inside
You can tell you’re a young ‘un. In my day Mojo chews were 2 for 1/2p!
That’s something that will bamboozle the kids too, yes, we had a half penny coin!
I remember having a half penny when I was a kid but they weren't in circulation I don't think lol "
lol I remember having threepence as my pocket money |
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By *empusMan
over a year ago
Poole |
"Cigarette machines that dispensed 1 cigarette with two matches in a little tube type thingy. "
Used to be able to buy single cigarettes from my local shop, they would just take one out of an open pack on the shelf. Think they were 20p |
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"Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point.
Yes and you'd go round pretending you had a real cigarette "
Yep, exactly!!! I was so cool back then with a candy cig hanging off my lower lip. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Candy cigarettes with a pinky/reddish tip. I loved sucking the end of one into a point.
Yes and you'd go round pretending you had a real cigarette
Yep, exactly!!! I was so cool back then with a candy cig hanging off my lower lip. "
Haha. Hope you didn't inhale |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
I can remember CB Radio & BT phone parties before the internet was how you met girls from other areas.
The phone parties at 40per min resulted in huge bills & parents installing phone locks. I rennet my mum going nuts at a £400 bill nearly all phone party numbers. But we figured out how to hack them by tapping out numbers on the handset . 10 years later in Australia and Indonesia it seemed every backpacker was tapping pay phones to call the uk for free  |
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